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3.10.2019

Rosie Potter

 

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Group Tutorial

29.10.2019

Rosie Potter

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1 to 1 Tutorial

13.11.2019

Ellen Nunes

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Crit

13.11.2019

Rosie Potter & Jennett Thomas

 

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  • Look like metal, could be dangerous

  • Carcass of a building

  • 9/11, skyscrapers

  • Ruins from a long time ago

  • Mournful, melancholy

  • Post-apocalyptic

  • Alberto Giacometto

  • Visible that they are made from paper when up close

  • Ruins, look like they have been underwater

  • A look into the future

  • Need more of the sculptures

  • Grenfell - cladding

  • Looks like a film/theatre set

  • Wake-up call to futuristic architecture

  • Langland and Bell - white architectural models

  • Cornford and Cross - artists

  • Sculptures need to be spread out a bit more

  • Eye-level vitrine?

  • Bryony Kimmings - I'm a Phoenix Bitch

  • Aftermath of a fire

  • Traumatic event

  • Absence of human existence

  • Pompeii

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  • Pompeii

  • Landfills and waste

  • If it was more clear that it is recycled paper it could be sarcastic, as if to say it was a house made of garbage

  • Look like chinese words and letters

  • Ed Fornieles

  • Paper rope could be an interesting material

  • Vestiges, traces

  • Could include insects?

  • Survival bubble - Brussels

  • Chernobyl - there is still life there

  • Nature reserves

  • Kiev

  • Try embedding seeds into papier mache

  • Edwina Ashton - Tintype Gallery

  • Similar to Gaudi - Sagrada Familia 

  • Works better on the floor rather than a plinth

  • Greenhouse - environment that you look into

  • A door into a small room to view it?

  • View holes, sealed room, different levels

  • Buildings are coloured by ink from newspaper stories

  • Newspaper headlines could be the title

  • Look into artists using headlines

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4.12.2019

Rosie Potter

 

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  • In between life and death

  • Leaving things alone

  • Beginnings and endings

  • Radio 4 interview - recycling fashion

  • Fast fashion - Primark etc

  • Book - The Great Animal Orchestra by Bernie Krause

  • Jurassic Park sounds

  • Exhibition - Return of the Native - taxidermy - extinction

  • Different structures in the landscape

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  • Kent Coast - Sound Mirrors

  • Fylingdale RAF Balls

  • Air raid sirens

  • Alarm/warning recordings

  • Tate - Susan Phillipsz - war damaged musical instruments

  • Chris Watson - wildlife sounds

  • Coil microphone for recording bats

  • Bird and bat boxes

  • Record different sounds at home

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1 to 1 Tutorial

9.1.2020

Rosie Potter

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  • Interim Show at Copeland Gallery in Peckham: moving work on Friday 21st Feb, install & private view Saturday 22nd Feb, public view Sunday 23rd Feb, crit & take down Monday 24th Feb

  • Plans for wall with peepholes: make a crate that could be assembled at the gallery?

  • Feedback on recorded sounds: 

  • Longer sounds

  • Take sounds to Ursula - advice on recording and editing

  • Need pure sounds - use a microphone

  • Sound induction with Jack?

  • Try zoom sound recorder

  • Make buildings taller?

  • Tall buildings - as if the buildings are growing themselves

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  • MCP recommendations: fictionalised representation, Zoe Leonard & Cheryl Dunye, Jane & Louise Wilson 'false negatives and false positives'

  • Chernobyl

  • Casting found objects

  • Research how we remember and memorialise things

  • Want to avoid aestheticism 

  • What is a memorial?

  • Research memorial art

  • Books by Professor James Young:

  • 'The Texture of Memory'

  • 'At Memory's Edge'

  • From ruin to monument - explore the line

  • Take more photos of ruins at home - could be blown up

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Group Tutorial

30.1.2020

Rosie Potter

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  • Using ivy on buildings would be too decorative

  • Moss could work - sphagnum moss

  • Could artificial plants be used in an ironic way?

  • A sound element (hand siren) is stronger than using plants

  • Don't want to 'pretty-up' a terrible situation

  • The idea of nature 'taking back' seems too happily-ever-after

  • Want to make it difficult for the audience for them to take notice of what our future currently looks like

  • Film: Bait - tension between a fishing community and tourists - focus on soundtrack

  • Film: The Lighthouse

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  • Explore sound archives

  • British Library archives - distressed animals

  • Things that agitate

  • Degree Show Plans:

  • Clear studios - Thursday 21st May

  • Install - From Friday 22nd May until Monday 1st June

  • Everything to be handed in by 1st June 5pm

  • Assessment starts Tuesday 2nd June

  • Private View - Thursday 11th June (evening)

  • Open to the public

  • Take down - Friday 26th June

  • Graduation - Tuesday 14th July

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Group Tutorial

28.2.2020

Rosie Potter

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  • Interim Feedback:

  • Fair comments:

  • To show that each component is part of the same piece they could be brought together more using space and lighting

  • MP3 soundtrack was too quiet - need to experiment with different speakers

  • J.G Ballard - The Drowned World

  • Non-useful comments:

  • 'We found a confused time-scale. Like how there are these decaying battlements, a siren calling current danger and birdsong saying danger had passed.' - The title of my piece was 'Hereafter' which points to the future so it should be clear that the buildings are not battlements (maybe I could make it more clear that they are ruins of modern buildings). The birdsong is not meant to be a peaceful contrast as the birds are calling in distress from being caught in a storm (the quietness of the speakers did not make this clear, so this needs to be improved).

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  • Feedback during group tutorial:

  • Creating a contrast with fragile sculptures and loud siren

  • To show that the sculptures, siren and soundtrack are part of the same piece I could operate the siren at fixed intervals 

  • Do I want the sculptures to resemble a city or are they something else?

  • Should the sculptures show a real city? Is this gimmicky?

  • Portraying a city would automatically make the piece political

  • Incorporating maps could be interesting

  • What would happen if some of the sculptures were hung upside down?

  • At the moment the viewer sees the sculptures from a God-like view. Do I want this or do I want it to be a more immersive experience?

  • Sense of a model village but instead of a perfect village it is decaying

  • Happy Valley book

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1 to 1 Tutorial

15.4.2020

Rosie Potter

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  • artangel.org.uk

  • Extended artist proposal along with lockdown work

  • Fantasy proposal

  • Photography: Darren Almond

  • Photography: Richard Billingham - The Black Country

  • Film: Cobra Mist - time lapse

  • Jane & Louise Wilson - False Positives & False Negatives

  • Fires in Chernobyl

  • Photographs at night

  • Canals and their history

  • Flooding in Newtown

  • Does any MCP research fit into Unit 9?

  • Think about theory - which areas do I want to read about?

  • Bernd & Hilla Becher: Old water tower photography

  • Reading: Bernd & Hilla Becher books

  • Rethinking your field workshops

  • Eyam: The Plague Village

  • Edwina Fitzpatrick: environmental issues

  • Anthropocene issues

  • Creative writing

  • Keep making plastic sculptures

  • Friday evening timetables

Group Tutorial

8.5.2020

Rosie Potter

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  • Sculptures as images/drawings/prints

  • Responding to canal shots

  • Working with materials from the landscape (canal)

  • Playing with space, light and surfaces

  • Metal sheet as base for glue drawings

  • Sculptural drawings

  • Uta Kogelsburger - past student

  • Suspending sculptures in resin?

  • Hanging sculptures with fishing wire?

  • Ghostly - invisible

  • Outside of reality

  • Sculptures hanging at different levels

  • Could the buildings follow a map of the canal?

  • Growing crystals on plastic sculptures?

Group Tutorial

20.5.2020

Rosie Potter

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  • No longer focusing on just the canal - all of Newtown

  • Glue drawings look like printed circuits

  • Glue drawings look too controlled - architectural buildings

  • First drawing of floorboards was like a painting

  • Too resolved/framed/contained - wood is colloquial frame

  • Background needs to be textured - just baking tray

  • Make glue drawings looser and less planned

  • Denise Hawrysio - series of prints from etching plates that had been sent of journeys - similar to baking tray which has had a former life

  • New drawings should be something controlled over something that has had a life

  • Can be totally random - Denise Hawrysio - random sounds and visuals created by sound - strapped handy cam on broom which was used to clean at the Bronx Zoo - strapped sound recorder to jukebox at speakeasy in Detroit

  • Can be partly controlled - student who placed a pot of wax on the beach to be knocked over by waves onto a surface

  • Taking photos of glue drawings - sharp highlights and shadows make it 3D or little light makes them flat like etchings

  • Shoot close so you can see texture of drawings?

  • First drawing of floorboards still have stringy parts and some areas are a different colour from where the glue has built up - think about this when making new drawings

  • Try drawing without looking or put the image away before drawing

  • Research different drawing strategies

  • Matthew Barney - drawing restraint - physical restraint

  • Claude Heath - looking very hard at succulent plants - drew with paper nailed to underside of desk

  • Elements of both control and the unexpected

  • Research drawings made by sculptors

  • Richard Serra - hand catching lead - randomness of whether it is caught or not

  • Crystal radio

1 to 1 Tutorial

28.5.2020

Rosie Potter

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  • Take photos of plastic sculptures outside

  • Take photos of plastic sculptures in shed

  • Research artists using sheds

  • Cornelia Parker - exploded shed

  • Night photos - over expose

  • Longer shutter speed

  • Use torch to 'paint' light onto shed

  • Proposal - Hexen 2000 by Susanne Treister

  • Proposal can be fiction - hunderds of sculptures?

  • Documentaries - Werner Hertzog - The White Diamond

  • Neater glue drawings are better than the abstract ones

  • Experiment with peeled off glue drawings

  • Canal maps

  • Caitlin Smith (past student)  - film

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